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Published February 22, 2021 • Updated on February 22, 2021 at 11:53 am Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Dr. Torian Easterling is the New York City Department of Health's first Deputy Commissioner and Chief Equity Officer For any vaccination program to succeed, there is one essential element: people's trust in the vaccine and the institutions that administer it. Confidence in the Covid-19 vaccine is as precious as our vaccine supply. But after decades of racist disinvestment and medical mistreatment, Black and Latino communities have every reason to be skeptical. Download o...

Despite Focus, 'Priority' NYC Areas Lag On Coronavirus Vaccines Patch 2/19/2021 Matt Troutman © Spencer Platt/Getty Images The city put the bulk of its COVID-19 vaccine sites in 33 hard-hit areas, yet vaccinations remain far lower than whiter, wealthier areas. NEW YORK CITY — A much-touted effort to bring the coronavirus vaccine to New York City neighborhoods hardest hit by the pandemic consistently failed to bring their vaccination rates up the high levels seen in whiter, wealthier areas, according to new data. Roughly 5 percent of adults living in 33 city-designated "...

The St Kitts Nevis Observer New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s first chief medical officer, Haitian-born Dr. Michelle Morse New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has appointed Haitian-born Dr. Michelle Morse to serve as the agency’s first chief medical officer (CMO). “As the agency’s inaugural chief medical officer, Dr. Morse will have the responsibility of leading the agency’s work in bridging public health and health care, ensuring greater alignment and coordination with health care systems, and serving as a key liaison to cli...

Lowering Covid-19 cases across the US isn't only critical to helping prevent another surge fueled by variants -- it also makes vaccines more likely to continue working effectively against mutations, one expert says.

Measures such as masks and social distancing continue to play a key role, because if the virus continues circulating at high levels, it will likely more often come into contact with, and try to infect, people who have been vaccinated.